While a clear backpack requirement will not solve every safety issue, it is one more layer we can add to help ensure our schools remain safe and welcoming," the school system said in an online ...

While Gwinnett County Public Schools considers a clear bag policy for all students, records show the district ordered more than $1 million in clear bags before a survey was sent to parents.

The Gwinnett County School District is considering making clear backpacks mandatory for students in an effort to make schools safer. The state’s largest district joins others around Georgia ...

In rural northeast Louisiana, the leaders of a small school district took ... While some schools have resorted to backpack bans or requiring students to use clear book bags, others have invested ...

Seattle-based entrepreneur and inventor of the modern backpack, Murray McCory, died last month at the age of 80.

The district initially announced last month that it would require students at all schools use clear book bags, starting this school year, and that it would provide bags for all students.

Take the school backpack, for example. Its invention can be traced to one man, Murray McCory, who died last month. McCory founded JanSport in 1967 with his future wife (Jan, the company’s namesake).

UNICEF is distributing urgently needed school supplies to help children displaced by violence get back to learning.

Bowhunting whitetails is a game that involves a lot of moving pieces, and bowhunting backpacks keep all those pieces together. A bow, arrows, tree stand, climbing sticks, binoculars, rangefinder, ...

While Gwinnett County Public Schools considers a clear ... bags for $1.3 million on Sept. 24 and 26, before the survey went out to parents. Steve Smith is a parent who also serves on the School ...

The district announced plans for a pilot program for clear backpacks in several schools but details have not been released. You can see the full poll results and school district officials’ full ...